The material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes: index of prisoners, vol. 2 January 1756-December 1792; session minute book December 1783-January 1785; Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer Fair Entry Books vol. 1 -11 covering February 1785-October 1834; Transportation account July 1829-December 1840 detailing record payments for the drawing up of legal papers, transportation bills and Indexes to persons indicted.
The collection comprises material related to the research of social historian Klaus Neumann including correspondence; field notebooks and diaries from Papua New Guinea in the 1980s and 1990s; articles relating to and written by Neumann; drafts of books; Papers including 'A Precautionary Measure: Internment in Australia during World War II', 'Reffos, Balts and Border Crossers:Australian Responses to Refugees 1938-1973'; list of publications and 2015 research outcomes.
The Papers of Margaret Lasica are professional and personal papers documenting Lasica's involvement with a variety of Australian dance companies, her professional reading, and the Modern Dance History Project and Archive. The most extensive components of the collection are those relating to the Modern Dance Ensemble, and The Modern Dance History Project and Archive, which was initiated by Lasica to document the early history of modern dance in Australia.
The collection includes music scores of Hugo Alpen's compositions, song books and text books containing Alpen's work, letters of Alpen's wife Sarah to her daughter (Ida Crisp), photographs, cuttings and a cutting album. Attached to many items are typescript notes of explanation written by Paul Alpen in 1971. Also included is Paul Alpen's translation, in 1957 for the Cabinet Secretariat of the Prime Minister's Department, of a theoretical study of the European Economic Community written in Dutch by P. J. Verdoorn and entitled 'An economic integration of Europe: a study of its background and consequences' (The Hague, 1952).
(20 ms boxes + 2 large folio boxes + 2 map folios)
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The collection includes the original manuscripts of "Salute to Five bells: John Olsen's opera house journal", 1971-1973, published in 1973 by Angus and Robertson; a volume compiled in 1981 from the original manuscript of "My complete graphics, 1957-1979", published in 1980 by Gryphon Books and sketchbooks, diaries, journals and notebooks from 1966 to 2015 that document John Olsen's life as a visual artist in Australia and overseas.